Catgut

Sat and heard the Ladies talk about Ribbon, Catgut and

John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767 1961

Catgut is also used by watch-makers, cutlers, and other artificers, in their different trades.

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

This was done by the Help of a Bit of Catgut, which shrinks in wet

The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge

Marteau was called “the Paderewski of the Catgut,” and he met with a most cordial reception among musicians.

Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899

Catgut, black & white, with a number of beautiful Stitches.

Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881

Catgut seems to be the best medium, and cases are on record in which, even after months of separation and subsequent paralysis, improvement has followed an operation for refreshing and joining the divided ends.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

-- Catgut (which see) makes better nooses than string, because it is stiff enough to keep in shape when set: brass wife that has been heated red-hot, is excellent; for it has no tendency whatever to twist, and yet is perfectly pliable.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

_ELIZABETH COURTNEY_, as several Ladies has signified of having a desire to learn that most ingenious art of Painting on Gauze & Catgut, proposes to open a School, and that her business may be a public good, designs to teach the making all sorts of French Trimmings, Flowers, and Feather Muffs and

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts 1860

"We a'n't none of us so young; we can't stay waiting for old Catgut no longer."

The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

"Let them look never so black at you, they can't get you put out when you're once in; -- no, not old Catgut, with Calves to help him!"

The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848